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If ever a weekend left distributors perplexed about how to deliver audiences for movies that deserve them, this was the one. Rarely do you see this many films on a weekend that came with backstories that amounted to cautionary tales about how hard the distribution business is for challenging movies.
This most glaring…

FINAL UPDATE: There were a few bumps for this weekend’s international releases, including a joyful bounce for Inside Out which moved from $6.3M in the Sunday projections, to $8.6M on Monday. Crimson Peak, The Martian, Pan and The Intern also saw slight increases while Ant-Man dropped a tick in China. Figures have been…

Moviegoers got their share of scares at the box office weekend between PG-rated kids lit franchise adaptation Goosebumpsand the lavish R-rated haunted house film Crimson Peak, however only one of them is bound for bigger grosses. Many expected Disney/DreamWorks’ Cold War drama Bridge Of Spiesto get whipped by Crimson…

5TH UPDATE 12:54AM & 6th UPDATE 7:50AM Sunday: Refresh for updates.The No. 1 film belongs to Sony for the fourth time this fall as its feature adaptation of Scholastic’s bestselling book series Goosebumpswas the top monster, grossing $23.5M at 3,501 locations. Previously the studio scored No. 1 spots over the last…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s easy to see the inspiration for Crimson Peak‘s blood-tinged, ghost-filled haunted house if you have the luck to visit the two memorabilia-stuffed residences where director Guillermo del Toro hatches these plots. To characterize del Toro as a genre collector doesn’t do justice to his obsession. He’s…

Let there be no question that director Guillermo Del Toro is a visual stylist second to none in today’s contemporary movie scene. With movies like his multi-Oscar winning Pan’s Labyrinth, to his enormously fun and big monster mash-up, Pacific Rim, this is the one horror helmer who doesn’t hold back or rely on cheap…

Two spooky films –Sony’s feature adaptation of the 23-year old R.L. Stine literary franchise Goosebumpsand Legendary’s Guillermo del Toro gothic horror film Crimson Peak — are planning to get both younger and older crowds into the Halloween spirit.
Goosebumps, which is tracking the strongest among both males and…

Venice Film Festival chief Alberto Barbera wants to put an end to the battle for world premieres. The affable Italian, who announced the lineup for the 72nd running of the world's oldest festival this morning, spoke with me this afternoon about competition among Venice, Toronto and Telluride for bragging rights to the…

Legendary Pictures descended on Hall H for Day 3 of Comic-Con, bringing with it three very different upcoming films, but all of them equally exciting if their reception was any indication. Fans went crazy as director Duncan Jones offered an extensive peak into the highly anticipated movie Warcraft. This was Jones…

Screen Gems confirmmed today that it will debut the first footage from its horror-lit mashup Pride And Prejudice And Zombies and action thriller Patient Zero at the Con. Its July 11 panel will feature P&P&Z cast including Lily James, Sam Riley, Bella Heathcote, Douglas Booth, Jack Huston and Matt Smith along with…

With one title left to screen, the Cannes Film Festival is beginning to wind down and the jury is poised to enter its final deliberations before announcing this year’s prize winners on Sunday evening. Earlier this week, we had the chance to chat with jury member Guillermo del Toro about his experience as part of what…

InCrimson Peak, Guillermo del Toro sought to make an old-fashioned scare-the-hell-out-of-you haunted house movie, the kind he grew up loving. Based on this first trailer, it looks like he has pulled out all the stops. The Legendary Pictures fright film will be released by Universal on October 16, right in the heart…